Scott Watermasysk

Cloud Storage Heating Up

Simpable — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:44:48 GMT

What happens with three very successful companies all start competing in the same web space? Consumers get cheap prices. Today Amazon announced a more open beta, lots of free beta access, and much cheaper prices on their cloud db service, SimpleDB . We've...(read more)

eBay Bloggers Holiday Charity Challenge

Simpable — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:35:52 GMT

Before you read the rest of this post, quickly look around your office and do a quick count on the number of usable gadgets and gizmos you have not touched in more than three months? I will wait.... Wow, quite a few things huh? What to do with all of...(read more)

Cloud Options - Amazon, Google, & Microsoft

Simpable — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:53:20 GMT

I have been researching various cloud offerings on and off for the last couple of months. I have primarily focused on offerings from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Here is an overview and some quick opinions of what each service offers. Amazon (AWS) While...(read more)

Saying Goodbye to the Non-Essential

Simpable — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:33:12 GMT

I expect we will be hearing many announcements like this from Google and many others in the coming weeks and months. In July we launched Lively in Google Labs because we wanted users to be able to interact with their friends and express themselves online...(read more)

Live Search API "Silk Road"

Simpable — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:37:48 GMT

Yesterday, Microsoft announced the release of Live Search services "Silk Road" . Silk Road is Live Search's new set of search APIs (version 2.0 beta) and services for developers. With Silk Road, you can build applications without restrictions...(read more)

Apology-Based Computing

Simpable — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:42:27 GMT

I was watching Max Feingold's PDC talk, Designing Your Application to Scale and one particular quote really stuck out to me. "At global scale, getting the truth is really really expensive". What he is referring to by " truth "...(read more)

Video Cameras For Sale

Simpable — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:49:10 GMT

I am looking to sell to video cameras to make room for the new Flip Mino HD . If you are interested in either, ping me at scottwater@gmail.com . Flip Mino I love this camera . It is super easy to use, fits into your pocket, and works on PC/Mac with no...(read more)

FeedBurner – Not Dead Yet?

Simpable — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:15:59 GMT

Maybe FeedBurner isn’t dead after all. I received the following email this morning: We’re contacting you to let you know that we’ll be migrating your FeedBurner account [removed] to your Google Account [removed] on 11/13/2008 . Please rest assured, this...(read more)

The New White

Simpable — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:21:24 GMT

Ahh, so many title choices, all of them would have haunted me in Google for many years. Anyway, I recently realized that four of my recent gadget purchases had one thing in common, they were all white. iPhone – I went with the white model based on the...(read more)

Papercut – Easy Email Testing

Simpable — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:50:40 GMT

Email is an incredibly important aspect of many applications. While most programming languages make it trivially easy to send email, debugging/testing is often a tedious and boring task…until now. Ken Robertson (of the Telligent product team) has released...(read more)

SEO in Blogs is Overrated

Simpable — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:42:25 GMT

I have spent way too much time in my life discussing SEO in blogs. For blogs like Engadget , SEO is a big deal. However, for the other 99.99% of people you are way better served creating great content and interacting with the visitors you already (yes...(read more)

Follow the Chefs

Simpable — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:56:52 GMT

With all the news about a crappy economy, I found the video below by Jason Fried of 37Signals very interesting. In particular, at the 20:06 marker he quoted Kathy Sierra , When it comes to marketing, you can either outspend or out teach your competitors...(read more)

Yahoo! Search BOSS C# Implementation

Simpable — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:24:07 GMT

I saw some mentions about Yahoo’s Boss a couple weeks ago, but I didn’t have time until recently to try it out for myself. BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) is Yahoo!'s open search web services platform. The goal of BOSS is simple: to foster...(read more)

BizSpark

Simpable — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:27:24 GMT

Photo By: scholewiak Microsoft's new BizSpark project is an effort to spur startups and entrepreneurs to use Microsoft technology when launching new companies. Microsoft is giving away software, services and support to startups earning less than ...(read more)

Improving Kindle

Simpable — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:16:33 GMT

I have had my Kindle since June. The hardware and user experience is really good, but there are some things Amazon could do to make the owner experience much better. Here are my suggestions for taking the Kindle from Good to Great. Total Price - $300...(read more)